Sampson2-2 at 2022 CURVE US Open of Curling

SKIP
Ethan
Sampson

Third
Kevin
Tuma

Second
Coleman
Thurston

Lead
Marius
Kleinas

Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sampson lost 6-3 to Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN), then responded with a 8-3 win over Jason Smith (Nashville, TN). Sampson won 7-6 against Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI). Sampson went on to lose 7-5 against Darryl Sobering (Denver, CO) in their final qualifying round match.

Sampson earned 7.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 89th place overall with 31.321 total points. Sampson ranks 70th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 8.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	22	29	0	0.431	7-4	3-10	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	392	271	288	6.91	7.35	-0.43	4.41	4.16	1.57	1.77	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	184	195	65	25	3-1	12-7	41-9	1.06	0.35	0.35	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	208	76	223	31	0-8	2-16	19-42	0.37	1.07	0.47	0.25

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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